A Midsummer Night's Dream Tickets

Shakespeare's whimsical tale of love, marriage, and magic, A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most widely performed of all his works. It features unforgettable characters and dramatically intersecting plots, so get your A Midsummer Night's Dream tickets right away and witness this fantastic tale for yourself!

A Midsummer Night's Dream Information

About the Show:

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the most widely performed plays by the great William Shakespeare. Believed to have been written between 1590 and 1596, it follows a few simultaneously occurring plots taking place in a magical forest: the wedding celebration of the Duke of Athens and the Queen of the Amazons, two sets of lovers whose affections are altered by a love potion, and a group of craftsmen rehearsing and performing a play. A Midsummer Night's Dream has some of the most recognizable characters in all of Shakespeare, including the regal fairy King Oberon and Queen Titania, the bumbling Athenian actors, and the whimsical servant creature, Puck. Their misadventures in the moonlit woods make this play a delightful treat. Order your A Midsummer Night's Dream tickets right away and see this classic performed live.

Plot Synopsis:

In preparation for his wedding to Amazon Queen Hippolyta, Theseus, Duke of Athens is planning a four-day festival with the help of his servant, Philostrate. Egeus, an Athenian aristocrat, brings to court his daughter, Hermia, and two men, Demetrius and Lysander. Egeus wants Hermia to marry Demetrius (who loves her), but she is in love with Lysander. Theseus gives Hermia until his wedding day to decide whether she will act against her father's wishes, a choice that could result in her being sent to convent or executed. Hermia and Lysander plan to elope at the house of his aunt, and they tell their intentions to Hermia's friend, Helena, who is pleased to hear it because she loved Demetrius. Helena tells Demetrius the news hoping to win his love. When Hermia and Lysander venture into the woods, Demetrius follows and Helena is not far behind.

Meanwhile, a band of Athenian craftsmen are in the forest rehearsing a play that they hope to perform for the newlyweds. A group of fairies resides in the woods, including King Oberon and Queen Titania, who has returned from India to bless the wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. She has brought with her a young Indian prince but refuses Oberon's request to make him a prince. In a vengeful temper, Oberon sends his servant, Puck, to obtain a flower that produces a love potion, hoping to use it on Titania. After seeing Demetrius treat Helena harshly, he orders Puck to use the potion on the young Athenian, but Puck mistakenly uses it on Lysander. In his attempts to remedy the situation, Puck causes both Demetrius and Lysander to fall in love with Helena, angering Hermia to the point of trying to challenge her to a fight. When the men begin to get hostile toward one another, Puck sends each one in a different direction in the woods.

When Titania awakes from slumber, the love potion causes her to fall in love with Bottom, the ridiculous Athenian craftsman whose head Puck has turned into that of an ass. In the end, Puck rights all of the various romantic troubles with the love potion, Theseus and Hippolyta bring the couples to Athens to be married, and Puck asks the audience to remember the play as if it had all been a dream. Get some A Midsummer Night's Dream tickets today and experience the dream for yourself.